Sun Sentinel

A Broward County school administrator could lose his job after an investigation concluded he misused his position to carry on an extramarital affair. The investigation centered around Israel Canales, 54, a manager of administrative support for the district, where he has overseen the operations...

No Broward County team has ever won three consecutive state football championships. That can change on Friday night when St. Thomas Aquinas takes the field at Orlando's Camping World Stadium to take on Tampa Plant at 8 p.m. The Raiders know what's at stake. "The whole team is into it," says senior...

Arizona should be better than 5-6-1. It has some top talent, and its plus-25 point differential is better than eight-win teams like Minnesota and Detroit. So the place to begin the weekly "How The Dolphins Beat" the Cardinals is to note their record is a bit of a mystery. Here's how to beat them:...

Three seasons ago, as the Miami Heat were moving toward a fourth consecutive NBA Finals appearance, this impending scheduling seemed unfathomable, back-to-back road games against LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. But here it is, James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night at Quicken Loans Arena...

A pair of contract protests Wednesday by unionized passenger airline and cargo pilots in Broward County could signal turbulent skies ahead for some travelers and air package carriers. A contingent of about 70 pilots from contract air cargo operators of DHL Express staged an informational picket...

A Boca Raton company is on track to offer women 40 and older who suffer from hot flashes due to menopause another alternative. TherapeuticsMD, which specializes in women's health products, has completed a year-long clinical trial that shows its combined hormone therapy softgel reduces hot flashes,...

The only reason the average premium for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. customers is around $2,500 a year is a state law limiting increases to 10 percent a year. Otherwise, increases in claims payouts over the past year would have put renewing Citizens customers on the hook for an average 65-percent...

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Travel

Actors Warwick Davis and Matthew Lewis will be participating in the 2017 edition of A Celebration of Harry Potter, a three-day event at Universal Studios theme park. Lewis played Neville Longbottom in all eight of the “Harry Potter” films. He’s also seen in the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey...

Expect to heft — not simply pick up — the menu at Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen. The newest restaurant at Universal's CityWalk delights fans with its decadent desserts and candy store, but its kitchen serves up everything from quiche to filet mignon. You can still get your...

I like the shopping trend of purchasing experiences over objects. It applies readily to theme parks and attractions, most of which have gift cards for admission or extras. But if you or yours are hot to physically unwrap a gift found underneath the tree, there's certainly no shortage of merchandise,...

Nation & World

In the end — isolated, mocked and loathed by millions of protesters who swarmed the streets around her presidential fortress on the side of a sacred granite mountain — even the conservative adulation that had been President Park Geun-Hye's political bedrock failed to save her.

A new report into systematic Russian doping details a wide-ranging "institutional conspiracy" that involved more than 1,000 athletes across more than 30 sports, including evidence corroborating large-scale sample swapping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard...

More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the most ever. The disastrous tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, a class of drugs known as opioids. Heroin deaths rose 23 percent in one year, to 12,989, slightly higher than...

Opinion

I'm very sad to say, but it was only a matter of time. The stories are different, but somehow always the same: a well-loved, well-trusted, talented individual infiltrates a youth-serving organization to gain access to children, and successfully victimizes, abuses, and shames kids into silence,...

When Joe Negron delivered his inaugural speech as Florida Senate president last month, the Stuart Republican told listeners how he and a friend made some mischief with political campaign signs. An officer called Negron's home and said the boys would be picked up if they did not quickly clean up...

Undocumented immigrants are very scared that President-elect Donald Trump will deport hundreds of thousands — if not millions — currently in the United States without proper papers. What few in the media have bothered to tell Americans is that there was a time when President Barack Obama has often...

Health

Shaving or waxing the hair down there may feel like the hygienic thing to do, but a new study suggests that those who regularly remove their pubic hair could be at greater risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection, according to the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections. The study,...

You're never too old to reap the health benefits of quitting smoking, a new study finds. "Even participants who quit smoking as recently as in their 60s were 23 percent less likely to die during follow-up than those who continued to smoke into their 70s," said lead researcher Sarah Nash, who conducted...

Nearly 2 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products from National Steak and Poultry are being recalled after some of the products appeared to be undercooked, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Sunday. The department said the possible undercooking...